FIRST NIGHT NEWS
Spotlight on First Night Fishers in Indiana
Fishers, Indiana will be the site of the newest First Night festival when the town hosts its first-ever New Year’s Eve celebration on December 31, 2009. A suburb of Indianapolis, Fishers has a growing population that currently numbers about 65,000. Ranked the 10th best place to live in America by Money magazine in 2008, Fishers is home to several annual festivals, including the Fishers Freedom Festival, the Flavor of Fishers and the Fishers Renaissance Faire. This year’s First Night Fishers event hopes to draw on the successes of those events. Break-a-leg, Fishers!
COMING SOON
First Night's Guide to Planning a New Year's Eve Arts Festival

- Getting started
- 10 Great program ideas
- How to attract new audiences

And the Winners Are.....
The votes are in! Congratulations to First Night Portsmouth, NH and First Night Saint Louis, MO! First Night Portsmouth takes the prize for the First Night 2010 Best Button, and Grand Center takes the prize for the Best Poster. Barbara Massar, executive director of First Night Portsmouth, extends her thanks and appreciation to Button Artist Carolyn Vibbert, and Kelly Weber, managing director of First Night Grand Center, thanks and applauds Poster Artist Karl Eggers.